HOLLAND -- Hope College today will announce a $1 million gift to support undergraduate science research.

The money from the Midland-based Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation will create an endowment to support student research in biochemistry, chemistry and molecular biology.

Proceeds will each year fund four new student “Dow Scholars,”, starting next year. Each scholar will get a stipend and support to conduct a research project with a faculty member. Students will work full-time for 10-weeks over two summers and continue part-time during the school year.

Hope College President James Bultman said the award continues a three-decade history of support by the Dow Foundation.

"The gifts of the foundation to the college have been transformational,” he said.

“By working with their faculty mentors in conducting cutting-edge
research, the Dow Scholars—like all of the students involved in
research at Hope—will be gaining first-hand experience,” said chemistry Professor Moses Lee, dean of natural and applied sciences.

The Dow Foundation, the fifth largest in Michigan, was established in 1936 in memory of Dow founder Herbert H. Dow.

Hope's Dow Health and Physical Education Center, which opened in 1978, is named in honor of a gift from the foundation.